Monthly Archives: September 2010

Where a plaintiff has sued the government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging that prison officials acted negligently in failing to provide him adequate dental care, I hold that the plaintiff may be compelled to appear in Boston for ...

Where (1) ballistics certificates were admitted at the defendant's trial in violation of his Sixth Amendment confrontation rights and (2) such error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we must reverse his convictions for unlawful possession of a firearm ...

Where a qui tam action under the False Claims Act was dismissed with prejudice, the dismissal order was consistent with the public disclosure provision of the Act and therefore should be affirmed. Public disclosures "The disclosures at issue primarily come ...

Where a plaintiff Russian citizen has appealed a Board of Immigration Appeals denial of her requests for asylum and withholding of removal, we hold that her appeal must fail because she has not proved past persecution in Russia or a ...

Where two defendants have appealed their convictions for knowingly failing to obey an order by an authorized federal law enforcement officer to heave to that vessel, we hold that the appeals must fail because the evidence was sufficient to support ...

Where (1) an administrative judge ordered payment to an employee of a closed period of G.L.c. 152, §34 total incapacity benefits, followed by a closed period of §35 partial incapacity benefits ending on March 12, 2008, the date of the ...

U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz charged Needham lawyer Martin J. Ahlijanian with tax evasion today. Ortiz alleges that, from 2004 to 2008, Ahlijanian fraudulently claimed a deduction for monthly payments that he made to his ex-wife, even though his separation ...

Attorney Julian T. Tynes of Springfield has been named chairman of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination by Gov. Deval L. Patrick. Tynes has served as assistant general counsel for the state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services in the ...

A criminal defendant cannot be ordered to wear a global positioning system monitoring device as a condition of probation absent a violation of probation, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a 4-3 decision. “We conclude that, unless a judge ...

Before he was hearing cases in Roxbury District Court, Judge Milton L. Wright recorded the classic funk record “Friends and Buddies.” Collectors have plunked down $1,000 for copies of another one of his 70’s albums, “Spaced.” Now Wright, who retired ...